Tag: hiking
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CT-Mount Frissell (south slope)
Summit Date June 11, 2013; around 12:00 pm Party Ryan, Debi, & Toren Cragun Trip Report I originally attempted to climb to the highest point in Connecticut – Mount Frissell (south slope) – in March a few years back and the summit was snowed in. I should have known better, but learned my lesson. This…
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Plenitud – Puerto Rico Trip – day 5
This was our first of two excursions during the service trip. I voted (well, strong-armed) the students to do this excursion over some of the others – it was a trip to El Yunque National Forest. It’s the only tropical rainforest in the United States. We got up early and hit the road, as it…
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hiking in Colt Creek State Park
Toren and I did a little hiking a few Sundays back at a new park. The layout was odd and the maps they had didn’t align with the actually trails as far as I could tell, but we did get to hike around a lake (Toren made it most of the way) and actually saw…
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Alafia River Corridor hike
We tried out another new hike from the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s website: the Alafia River Corridor. This was one of the first hikes we’ve done here in Florida where I felt like I was really out in the middle of nowhere. From the parking lot to the wider trail by the train tracks…
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Weedon Island Preserve
Having spent far too much time at Busch Gardens over the last few months, I decided to do some hiking with Toren on Sundays instead. Last weekend we visited Weedon Island Preserve, just across the bay in St. Petersburg. Toren wasn’t interested in hiking and rode in the backpack the whole time, but he seemed…
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some clips from my Scotland trip
I posted photos from my Scotland trip, but forgot about the footage. Here are some clips I shot. Here’s the bowl in the Cuillin Hills that was amazing: Here’s a shot of the scree pile I hiked to get to the top of the Cuillin Hills bowl: A short clip of the summit and the…
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videos from Granite Peak
I just posted my trip report for Granite Peak. In addition to the report, I posted, I shot a few videos. First up, here I am rappelling from the top of Granite Peak: Now Tom’s turn: Now the mountain goats’ turn… Okay, they weren’t rappelling. But they did climb right up one of the chimneys…
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MT-Granite Peak
Summit Date August 19th, 2012; around 4:00 pm Summit Party Ryan Cragun and Tom Triplett Trip Report Granite Peak isn’t the tallest highpoint (McKinley in Alaska is; Granite is number 10) nor the most remote (Gannett Peak in Wyoming is more remote), but many people have claimed that it is the most difficult highpoint to…
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visit to California – light house and artichokes
On the 13th we drove into San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate, and stopped for lunch in Sausalito. We then went for a nice walk to the Point Bonita lighthouse. Toren carried his cousin’s Woody doll (from Toy Story) on his shoulders the whole way (I carried Toren most of the way, in effect carrying…
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hiking from Monte Verde to the Highlands
I spent the previous evening playing video games with my brother Josh, some of his friends, and some nephews. Josh’s wife, Jessica, stuffed us with delicious food. I needed another hike just to work dinner off, so I put Toren in the pack again and headed out, hoping to find a route from Monte Verde…